Quotes about Writing
I'm super happy to say that it's not that hard to write bad stand-up. I guess the trick is to write bad stand-up that sounds like you're trying to be good.
— Pete Holmes
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.
— Elie Wiesel
I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm doing nothing but writing if I do my job correctly.
— Shonda Rhimes
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always a really chaotic period on shows.
— Miranda Otto
When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.
— John Ortberg
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.
— Elton John
Never place your punch at the beginning of a column nor at the end. Sneak it in where it's least expected. Fill a whole column with drivel, just to get in that one important line.
— Ayn Rand
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I learned to produce whether I wanted to or not. It would be easy to say oh, I have writer's block, oh, I have to wait for my muse. I don't. Chain that muse to your desk and get the job done.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
— Barbara Kingsolver